URDU, Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu - Karachi

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Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan
ISSN (print): 2519-6332
ISSN (online): 2708-1915
Abstract

Paulo Coelho de Souza (b: 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian novelist. He wrote numerous novels in Portuguese. Almost all of his novels have been translated in English. He started writing novels in 1974 and till 2020, he had written 32 novels. Among them him famous novel AlChemist was translated twice in Urdu before. Now (Dr.) Saeed Ahmad translated his two other novels in Urdu named: The Archer and By the River Piedra, which are named in Urdu continuously as Teer Andaz and Girya Bar kinar e Darya, published from Misaal Publishers, Faisalabad in 2021. Saeed Ahmad is Head of the department of Urdu at Government College University, Faisalabad. He is well known for his ctitical works on Urdu Daastan (Urdu tales). On this particular topic, his two books have been published in the last few years which make him popular in the circle of Urdu literary society. Moreover he is a successful Urdu translator. His these two translations of Paulo Coelho’s novels is an example of his good translation. Saeed Ahmad tried to use the literary translation method in these translations. He used to translate the English text of Paulo Coelho novels in literary manners of Urdu language. He used simple, elegant and easily understandable but purely literary Urdu language. In this respect it is so important that this kind of language is quite suitable for a literary translation.

Author(s):

Asst., Prof., Dept. of Urdu, Garrison University, Lahore

Pakistan

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Dean of Languages, Garrison University, Lahore

Pakistan

Associate Prof. Dept. of Urdu, Govt. College University, Lahore

Pakistan

Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 98
Issue: 2
Language: Urdu
Id: 63a00258bf27c
Pages 73 - 90
Discipline: Arts & Humanities
Published December 31, 2022

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